[-] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)
[-] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 17 points 1 month ago

PC Gamer put out a pro-AI piece recently - unsurprisingly, Twitter tore it apart pretty publicly:

I could only find one positive response in the replies, and that one is getting torn to shreds as well:

I did also find a quote-tweet calling the current AI bubble an "anti-art period of time", which has been doing pretty damn well:


Against my better judgment, I'm whipping out another sidenote:

With the general flood of AI slop on the Internet (a slop-nami as I've taken to calling it), and the quasi-realistic style most of it takes, I expect we're gonna see photorealistic art/visuals take a major decline in popularity/cultural cachet, with an attendant boom in abstract/surreal/stylised visuals

On the popularity front, any artist producing something photorealistic will struggle to avoid blending in with the slop-nami, whilst more overtly stylised pieces stand out all the more starkly.

On the "cultural cachet" front, I can see photorealistic visuals becoming seen as a form of "techno-kitsch" - a form of "anti-art" which suggests a lack of artistic vision/direction on its creators' part, if not a total lack of artistic merit.

[-] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

2026

Not soon enough. I'd be happy if they were forced to list it right the fuck now.

[-] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 18 points 3 months ago

In other news, https://creative.ai/ was put up for purchase because the original owner considers AI's reputation a lost cause.

(In other other news, its my 24th birthday.)

[-] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 18 points 3 months ago

Ran across an impressively strong sneer whilst looking through Baldur Bjarnason's link list for the week:

A JUST TRANSITION MEANS RESISTING A.I. (from Scottish Left Review)

Gonna copy-paste the quote Baldur used because god damn:

AI isn’t simply a problematic technology but an apparatus that is shaped by the injustices of our existing social relations and which, in turn, reshapes and intensifies them.

Also got an interesting Tweet from Ed Zitron:

This is entirely my gut instinct, but there is boiling resentment against big tech. Something is shifting, and it's shifting violently, both in the general public and the media. Blood in the water. People are ready for a change.

I've had that same gut instinct before - I've kinda had it since Baldur noted tech's disconnect from the public a month ago. Feels like we're entering an era where working in tech is treated as a red flag, a sign you're a money-hungry asshole willing to hurt innocent people to make a quick buck.

[-] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 18 points 3 months ago

In other news, Procreate put out a damn good sneer aimed at AI art:

Creativity is made, not generated.

Generative AI is ripping the humanity out of things. Built on a foundation of theft, the technology is steering us toward a barren future. We think machine learning is a compelling technology with a lot of merit, but the path generative AI is on is wrong for us.

We're here for the humans. We're not chasing a technology that is a moral threat to our greatest jewel: human creativity. In this technological rush, this might make us an exception or seem at risk of being left behind. But we see this road less travelled as the more exciting and fruitful one for our community.

Unsurprisingly, they're getting a standing ovation from artists for doing the right thing.

[-] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 18 points 3 months ago

If this turns out to be real, I suspect its gonna be a major shitshow - not only for the publisher, but for the AI industry as a whole.

For the publisher, they're gonna be lambasted for endangering people's lives for a quick AI-printed buck.

For AI, its gonna be yet another indictment of an industry that's seen fit to put technology, profits, basically everything over human lives - whether in the "AI Safety" criti-hype which implicitly suggests culpability for bringing about an apocalypse straight out of sci-fi, or in the myriad ways they are making the world worse right now.

[-] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 18 points 3 months ago

c'mon bubble

[-] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 17 points 3 months ago

The site describes CalcGPT as an art installation

As a critique of AI, it probably is pretty effective - no better way of mocking ChatGPT than by having it fuck up basic arithmetic that even a five-year-old can do.

You wanna mock somebody, it helps tricking them into mocking themselves.

[-] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 17 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Study shock! AI hinders productivity and makes working worse [Thomas Claburn, The Register]

Personal opinion: c'mon bubble

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